Monday, April 20, 2015

My old block on Peoria after 22 years of business and wondering when it would happen finally got bulldozed. Gone. Flat. It is a scraped clean lot now and waiting like a phoenix rising from the ashes and will become a Trader Joe's and a shopping center. Could be worse. The property got very valuable.

I have survived. I moved 22 years of collected project idea supplies to my home as well as my clay supply and kilns. I have a beautiful gallery/studio to work in downtown in the Atlas Life/Marriott hotel in the Deco district of Tulsa.

If you are looking for clay, glazes, tools, pottery or classes, I'm the place for you. I continue to sell many kinds of clay and several cone 5/6 and low fire glazes as well, kemper tools, amaco, spectrum and lagoona glazes.

I have classes for beginners and advanced in hand building (see earlier post for details) and host date nights and small get togethers.

I work in my shop making new pots and painting on canvas, Monday-Friday and I slip into the studio/gallery and secretly work getting things done on the weekend as well. I'm there a lot more than my hours indicate.

So yes, I have survived the move, hernia surgery and a few life changes. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Come see me. If you want to be sure to not miss me. Call or text first at 918 697-6364.

About Me

Brookside Pottery started in Tulsa in 1991. It is a working pottery studio with stoneware sculpture and dinnerware, clay glazes tools and equipment.
I have been making pottery and sculpture for over 35 years. In 1978 I finished my master's degree in ceramics from the University of Tennessee. I taught art at Webb middle school. I moved to Emory Va where I started Meadowview Pottery Workshop and taught part time at Emory and Henry College.My husband John and I moved to Austin Texas for his PHD and I worked at pottery shop Feats of Clay for 4 1/2 years. We moved to Norman OK for two years. Tulsa was our next move and I started Brookside Pottery about 18 years ago. I have studied with many significant potters across the nation including Fawn Navasie, Richard Zaken, Sylvia Hyman, Josh Deweiss, Hal Reiger and more. I have shown in McClung Museum,
Knoxville a couple of times, won various sculpture awards and most recently featured in 25 potters in Ok in Studio Potter magazine. I love raising my family and going to the movies with my husband. And, if I am not home I can only hope I am traveling in some exotic place and writing.